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Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page

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On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 09:17:49AM +0530, Lone Learner wrote:
>On 9 March 2017 at 14:51, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>>
>> We've stopped building CDs for most purposes - they're just too small
>> to be useful in a lot of cases, and have been causing issues for
>> users. We also switched to offering the choice of desktop at tasksel
>> time, which makes it less important to offer multiple different CDs
>> tuned to install each desktop.
>>
>> For some time now we've only been building two CDs per architecture:
>> the netinst and *1* single-desktop installer CD for xfce. If you want
>> to install other desktops, grab the netinst and select during
>> installation or use DVD#1.
>
>Can someone please share why the single-desktop installer CD was made
>in favour of Xfce? Why was not some other desktop like GNOM3, KDE or
>LXDE selected for the single-desktop installer CD?

Gnome and KDE don't fit on a single CD - we've been struggling for a
couple of releases to get a reasonable subset of each to fit, and it's
just not working any more. We actually dropped the CDs altogether for
a while, then on request brought back XFCE as a lone option for a
single-CD desktop. XFCE is reasonably small. and popular enough.

CDs are basically dead - the world moved on to DVDs several years ago,
and now USB flash is probably most common for most users.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
Is there anybody out there?

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Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page Lone Learner <learnerlone@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 05:40 +0100
  Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2017-03-09 10:30 +0100
    [Clarification?] Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing  from the download page Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-09 12:40 +0100
      Re: [Clarification?] Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de> - 2017-03-09 13:00 +0100
        Re: [Clarification?] Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2017-03-09 14:10 +0100
    Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the  download page Lone Learner <learnerlone@gmail.com> - 2017-03-12 04:50 +0100
      Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the  download page Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-03-12 05:50 +0100
        Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the  download page Lone Learner <learnerlone@gmail.com> - 2017-03-12 08:50 +0100
      Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the  download page Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2017-03-16 16:10 +0100
        Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the  download page Lone Learner <learnerlone@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 09:00 +0100

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